SHAR­JAH – Shai Hope cracked a mas­ter­ful, un­beat­en half cen­tu­ry but his Dubai Cap­i­tals still went down to the Shar­jah War­riors by five wick­ets in a high scor­ing af­fair when the In­ter­na­tion­al League T20 (ILT20) con­tin­ued in the Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates Friday.

MUL­TAN – West In­dies fast bowler Jay­den Seales snared three ear­ly wick­ets but half-cen­turies from Saud Sha­keel and Mo­ham­mad Rizwan helped to re­build Pak­istan’s in­nings on the open­ing day of the first Test here at the Mul­tan Crick­et Sta­di­um in Pak­istan on Fri­day.

MUL­TAN, Pak­istan – De­spite star­ring on the open­ing day of the first Test against Pak­istan, pac­er Jay­den Seales says he ex­pects spin bowlers to play a ma­jor role on the re­main­ing four days.

The KFC Colonel Com­men­ta­tor pro­gramme start­ed last year has al­ready borne fruit with four per­sons start­ing their ca­reers in me­dia due to it.

BAS­SETERRE, St Kitts – West In­dies se­nior women’s head coach Shane Deitz, em­pha­sized the sig­nif­i­cance of the up­com­ing Bangladesh se­ries, cit­ing it as an op­por­tu­ni­ty to re­fine team com­bi­na­tions and as­sess play­ers vy­ing for key po­si­tions.

T&T De­fence Force FC and new coach Den­sill Theobald will put their 100 per cent win­ning record on the line when they come up against MIC Cen­tral FC Re­boot in their top-of-the-ta­ble T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) Tier I clash at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta from 8 pm on Fri­day night.

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege and East Mu­cu­rapo made a suc­cess­ful start to the T&T Sec­ondary Schools Bas­ket­ball League, win­ning the boys’ and girls’ Un­der-17 ti­tles.

Jer­seem Boodram will be back to de­fend his ti­tle at the Brechin Cas­tle Golf Club Cham­pi­onship at the Brechin Cas­tle Golf Course, Cou­va from Fri­dayun­til Sun­day (Jan­u­ary 17-19).

For­mer na­tion­al women’s vol­ley­baller Sinead Jack had two straight match­es in dou­ble-dig­it scor­ing to help Eczacibasi Dy­nav­it keep up their quest for top spot in the Turk­ish Voda­fone Sul­tan Women’s Vol­ley­ball League.

MUL­TAN, Pak­istan– All the prep work and team plan­ning will be out the win­dow short­ly, as the West In­dies crick­et team gears up for a long-await­ed re­turn to Pak­istan’s Test are­na, as they face off against the hosts in the first of two match­es at the Mul­tan Crick­et Sta­di­um.

GROS, ISLET, St Lu­cia – For the first time in its his­to­ry, the Re­pub­lic Bank Caribbean Pre­mier League (CPL) has sur­passed the bil­lion-view­er­ship mark, com­bin­ing dig­i­tal and broad­cast plat­forms. The to­tal au­di­ence for the 2024 tour­na­ment reached an as­tound­ing 1.13 bil­lion, a re­mark­able 32% in­crease from 2023.

DUBAI, Unit­ed Arab Emi­rates, Jan 16, CMC – Fakhar Za­man’s bril­liant 67 off 52 balls led the Desert Vipers to a five-wick­et vic­to­ry over MI Emi­rates at the Dubai In­ter­na­tion­al Sta­di­um, as ac­tion con­tin­ued in the ILT20 here Thurs­day.